Car and Seward exploration and Open Door with Judy

May 15, 2023: Ok starting right away. Meds at 6:07am with some toast and almond butter. I also played all my word games with Papa and updated my resume, on Indeed and on my website too, and then I put a green turtle sticker on my car that I’d bought in Florida with Hannah for a dollar or two. Funny enough I didn’t realize when I bought it that it had multiple pieces to it, so I had to put it on pretty carefully, and the upper right foot might be twisted. I’ll put a picture of it in this too. I have a lot of stickers on my car, just like I was planning before I was allowed to drive. This morning, after the sticker placement, I also made iced coffee using the new hot water heater for the first time, that Papa had gotten me while I was in Florida. I also emailed Whitney to see if she had openings before Thursday for a make-up appointment for my time in Florida. Nothing so far, we’ll see. About to meet with Jessica on video. Alright so during my Jessica meeting, she actually pushed me to go into Seward Co-op where I applied and check it out, and I had time to do that before my Open Door shift today. I got to ask a deli worker named Liam about whether it was a good place to work at socially, and he said that you can make friends there, and I told him that he had the same name as one of my best friends. Also, a different worker named Hannah told me that applications could take a while. Then I checked at the front desk, and the guy there named Win said to email if I hadn’t heard back in two or three weeks. That’s also about when I asked mom what actual position I’d applied for, at which point she called me to check what I was doing. Really I was just asking the name of the position I’d applied for officially, because Liam asked me for it. We didn’t know the name of it, but actually it turns out the position I applied for was “Multi Department Clerk,” just based on checking my Indeed. Oh and just when I was walking out, after walking back in to grab the email that wasn’t on the card, I asked Win and he told me that employees park on the street not in the lot. Funny enough it’s right across the street from Sabathani, where I used to volunteer. Then I went straight to Open Door. I got there a few minutes early, at like 11:50am, and had a few small snacks from the shared room. That was basically my lunch, just a chocolate fudge brownie and other things, and I was careful to note that I’d last eaten at 12:06pm for the meds. When I first walked in I told Wendy and Sean about how amazing the Floria trip was, showing the sunburn too, and I also told them about checking out Seward Co-op today. I also asked Lourdes, who’s from Mexico City, what that word that I was always hearing in my car’s audio directions in Spanish was, and she said it’s “bifurcación.” Like, “mentente a la derecha en la bifurcación.” It basically means like a fork in the road, though I’m sure most people would just say exit in casual speech. Funny enough I also looked up the word for sauerkraut, since we had extra of that, and Lourdes said she didn’t know that one either. It was “chucrat.” Lourdes joked that she must be forgetting her Spanish, and that I was teaching it to her again. She did tell me today that to say clip on earrings you’d just say “aretes de clip,” which makes sense, and also that handles are “mangas.” Today I also told Owen that pantry assistant was my new favorite position, and he said that I could maybe switch to more of that in the future even when I have a warehouse assistant shift. Oh and the best thing that happened today was I talked to this woman named Judy who was also a pantry assistant. She also knows a bit of Spanish, but a bit less than me. We talked mainly in English, but I did explain the whole photo of the day project to her in Spanish. I also told her all about the accident and its date and the fact that I was applying for the job at Seward. She told me that she’s retired now, like so may of the people I volunteer with, and she used to be an orthopedic nurse. Oh the other kind of interesting thing is that I told Lourdes about volunteering at Methodist Church food shelf on Tuesdays, which is why I’m not there Tuesday mornings, and about how every single one of their clients only speaks Spanish, it seems like. Lourdes also wrote down the name and address of that one to save to give to clients who came into Open Door but lived in Minneapolis. And then when I was walking out, I talked to Judy a bit more and told her that Open Door was the first place I was allowed to drive on the highway because I couldn’t do that for a while, and that my accident was October 23, 2021, which she said “wasn’t that long ago.” I also told her the main thing I was looking for in a job was the social life, and not being surrounded by stupid retired people like her. Then I drove back to Papa’s house and had some Indian food with my meds at 4pm, good because I was quite hungry by then. I deeply prefer when I can have the night meds with an actual dinner. Maybe I’ll also snack on something later, but I’ve had dinner now. I had a mix between a fried chicken curry (13g fat) and channa masala (9g fat) with a little bit of naan, and a bunch of 0 fat mango chutney and cranberry juice. Alright, now I’m just typing this up sitting at Papa’s drinking cranberry juice and I’m gonna work on the yearbook in a bit too. I also realized once I was here that I’d left my coffee mug at Open Door, and I’m not going back all week, so I emailed Veronica and asked her to keep it in Sean’s office, and also left a voice message. Then I stayed at Papa’s for a few hours and worked on the yearbook and organized my life, then Papa came back from mock trial at 8:30pm and we had a pizza supreme too since it was over two hours after the meds. Wrote most of this yesterday and just finishing and posting morning of the 16th. Oh I also just realized right now that the cup I left at Open Door with coffee was the one I’d replaced the cactus one with, and even though it has the top that's less broken, it’s way less of a disaster than I thought.